Jane Feuer
American film and television scholar known for influential work on the Hollywood musical and U.S. television culture, including the books The Hollywood Musical and Seeing Through the Eighties: Television and Reaganism; longtime professor associated with the University of Pittsburgh.
Books
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1. The Hollywood Musical
A concise theoretical and historical examination of the American film musical, this study argues that the genre is inherently self-reflexive and sustained by myths of spontaneity, integration, and community. Through close readings of works from Busby Berkeley extravaganzas to MGM classics, it shows how song-and-dance numbers resolve tensions between labor and leisure, artifice and authenticity, and individual desire and collective harmony. It traces the genre’s evolution and explains its enduring appeal as a utopian spectacle intertwined with the realities of industrial filmmaking.
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